CORONATION ROBES

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 114, 8 February 1937, Page 9

CORONATION ROBES

What Peeresses Must Pay

(Received February 7, 7.30 p.m. )

London, February 7

A duchess’s dress bill for the coronation ceremony will reach £432, of which £336 will go in the crimson velvet three-piece robe, including a train and ermine-trimmed cape, and the remainder for a white or gold court dress costing £6O, a coronet £25, gloves and shoes £5 each, and stockings £l, says the “Sunday Times,” commenting on a peeress’s robe, which can be worn only once or twice in a lifetime at coronations.

It adds that on the same scale a marchioness must spend £304 on her robe, a countess £2BB, a viscountess £267, and a baroness £246, the differences being due largely to the smaller amount of ermine and shorter trains required by the lower ranks, but peeresses content to wear rabbit instead of ermine and machine-woven velvet instead of hand-woven and other cheaper materials can save between £135 and £l7B, according to rank. All,' however, will have further expense on tiaras and other jewellery.